Freddie Ljungberg has hit out at Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhaes over his “disrespectful” goal celebration in a 5-1 win over Sporting CP on Tuesday night.
The Gunners ran out comfortable winners against Sporting – who were playing their first Champions League match after Ruben Amorim’s departure to Manchester United – with Mikel Arteta’s side delivering an impressive performance in Europe.
Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Magalhaes put Arsenal 3-0 up before the interval before Sporting pulled a goal back through Goncalo Inacio shortly after half-time.
But Sporting could not halt Arsenal’s dominance as a Bukayo Saka penalty put them further ahead before Leandro Trossard’s 82nd minute strike finished off the scoring.
Gabriel and William Saliba were on top form to stop the threat of Gyokeres for Sporting with the Sweden international linked to a number of Premier League clubs.
And Gabriel rubbed salt in the wound for Gyokeres with the Arsenal defender celebrating his goal by copying the Swede’s celebration by locking his fingers in front of his face.
Arsenal legend Ljungberg was not impressed by what he saw from Gabriel and thought his decision to mimic Gyokeres’ celebration was “disrespectful”.
Ljungberg said during his analysis for Viaplay: “I’m not a fan of it. Of course, he must have had a lot of talk about playing against Gyokeres and whether he would be able to do it. Then his point in showing that he can handle it is quite simple.
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